Joe Trotter is a specialist in U.S. urban, labor, and African-American history.

In addition to books on African American life and labor in Milwaukee, West Virginia, and the Ohio Valley, he is the author of a two volume textbook on the African American experience from its African beginnings through recent times.

Steven Schlossman is a social and policy historian who specializes in a variety of 19th and 20th century U.S. history topics, including education, childhood and parenting; juvenile and criminal justice; the politics of military recruitment; and the history of sports – especially golf.

Some of his current research includes the history of the U.S. Open Championship, with special attention to the 1973 Open held at Oakmont Country Club, and the history of women’s amateur golf.

Marcel Just's research uses fMRI and other technologies to uncover the architecture of human thought.

The fMRI studies track brain activity that occurs during cognitive and social thought, such as language comprehension, visual thinking, problem-solving, working memory, social judgment and multi-tasking.

Sheldon Cohen's work studies the effects of stress and social support on immunity and susceptibility to infectious disease.

He has published pioneering theoretical and empirical work on the effects of aircraft noise on health and development of school children, and on the roles of stress and social networks in physical and mental health.